Anybody Signing The Ebay Internet Tax Petition?

As to supporting the petition , it would not do any Canadian or European ebay sellers any good . Most of us with any significant ebay presence are required to collect VAT or GST / HST Taxes already based on the rate of the jurisdiction the item is being sent to.
A few years back the CRA ( Canada's Tax Agency ) won a court case against ebay and records of sellers were required to be turned over to the tax agency. They also recently won a court order against PayPal.
Any significant Canadian seller who is not reporting income or collecting Taxes( and there are many ) is a complete fool and is in for a world of hurt once the CRA is finished with them .
We live in a world where governments of all stripes are flat broke and are hungry for every tax dollar they can find or get through audits.
As stated earlier , ebay would be responsible for administrating the mess , and it would cut in to their profits.
Etsy is already collecting sales taxes for Washington State Tax authorities as well as Pennsylvania from all sellers US and international sellers .

As I see it, the results of this would be a loss of competition, even to the point of entire markets drying up. A lot of the lower value collectibles trade happens through what are essentially hobbyists using ebay as a trading platform. The hassle this will create will dampen a lot of a sellers motivation, especially when it's very part time. I think this makes up a large chunk of the under $10 stuff, and all the random stuff people find and post just to see what happens. ebay is phenomenal for finding odds and ends. If the small guys stop selling, will the big guys care to take over? How much margin do the little part timers have to give to make it worth while?

Winners:

Big business that can deal with the hassle, probably already are.

Software companies providing a solution.

Losers:

Small business
Hobbiest traders who operate small accounts
As always, consumers always lose in this scenario through higher prices or fewer choices unless the local tax revenue is spent doing something the burned market feels is worthwhile (ya'll be you own judges of that).

I presume the local authorities have been convinced they will make more by taxing a market without the small guys, so fewer net transactions, than they are currently making with the small guys paying in a limited fashion. It's a risk they are willing to take. So they want to be in the winners group. Only time will tell.

This gets very complicated very quickly. Different jurisdictions have different rules and it is not reasonable to believe that a seller, even an ebay pro, will understand all jurisdictions. This is not a political statement, just a reflection of the different taxation rules in different jurisdictions.

As @Pacificoin implied, the rule in Canada is that you have to gross sales/income of $30,000 CDN in 13 months to reach the GST threshold... of course once registered, you are in for life even if future sales decline. Thus the comment about "Significant seller".

It gets worse though... the GST rate in Canada is not constant across the country... some provinces have a sales tax separate from the GST... (BC it is at 7%, Alberta it is at 0%) other provinces piggyback the GST and call it Harmonised Sales tax or HST. The rate is different for most provinces.

In most jurisdictions, coins sold as investment don't trigger tax. In Canada, an investment grade coin is a precious metal (Silver at 99.9%, Gold or Platinum at 99.5%) or higher purity. This means that UK Sovereigns which are 22karat (91.67%) or any sterling silver (92.5%) coins are not classed as investment grade for Canadian purposes... in the UK however, the bar is 90% so Sovereigns are classed as investment grade. Base metal or non-investment grade coins are not subject to tax if they are sold at face value... Anyone selling a 1948 Canadian Dollar for $1

Now it gets worse again... in BC, if a precious metal coin is sold for a significant premium over bullion, it is considered a collectible for which provincial taxes are levied. So to get this straight:
- Silver Maple Leaf sold for spot = no tax
- NCLT 99.9% Silver, sold at RCM typical 5x spot = BC Tax @ 7 %
- Circulation coin or Sterling NCLT (92.5%) = GST + BC Tax @ net of 12%
And this is only one of 10 provinces and 3 territories in Canada.

In most cases though, for this to apply a transaction would need to be within a national boundary as the import broker (often the shipper/postal service) is charged with collecting duties and taxes for imported goods. However, sellers need to retain records as they want to be able to claim that they sold $x to offshore buyers so they are not required to remit taxes that should have been collected were the sales to buyers in country.

This is one of the reasons that the ebay worldwide shipping service costs so darned much, it costs to maintain an infrastructure that understands all the arcane tax rules that apply... the last thing anyone needs is for that basic model to apply to in-country sales... i.e. all goods sold on ebay would need to go through a sanctioned shipper for the correct attribution and collection of taxes.

Antyhing that is for making me pay more taxes is something I am currently against. I see way too much waste.

Sellers would also have to figure out all of the different tax laws for all states regarding coins and currency. Some states (including mine) exempt coins from sales tax, while some only exempt coin purchases over a certain dollar amount. Figuring out all these laws would be a huge burden on sellers, and only shipping to states where coins are tax exempt will decrease the number of potential buyers.

It's probably not going to happen and if did it would be a lot of court battles and eventually end up in the supreme court for states taxing non residence with no presence at all. Honestly that's pretty unenforceable as well, not state AG is going to extradite their citizen over something like that to another state.

That said, think about why it's being proposed. The 8,000 pound gorilla for online sales gave up the fight against sales tax and would be happy to see everyone else run out of business from it

I agree, and I certainly hope you are correct. I had a thought before my last post that the problem is attempting to implement traditional tax law in a non-traditional market.